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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.space.net!news.camelot.de!news.hannibal.camelot.de!usenet From: os@hannibal.camelot.de (Oliver Scheel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dump and compression Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:55:57 GMT Organization: Hannibal Online Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5gn6ht$972@hannibal.camelot.de> References: <5glaem$io6$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hannibal.camelot.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.7 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37272 > Am I right, and dump does not attempt to compress the data? > If so, why? I can fit more on the same tape with tar/gzip, than > with dump (unless the drive has hardware compression in it)... > Thanks, e.g. dump 0uf - /usr | gzip -c >/dev/rst0 should work (or am I wrong? I only used wthis with my phase change drive.). Oliver -- *** Oliver Scheel, Zenettistr. 45a, D-80337 Muenchen, Germany *** *** email: os@hannibal.camelot.de http://www.camelot.de/~os/ ***